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The Coast Guard accepted delivery of the 14th fast response cutter, Heriberto Hernandez, in Key West, Florida, July 30. The cutter is scheduled for commissioning in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in October. The ship will be the second FRC stationed in San Juan. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Frank Tatu.

The Coast Guard Logistics Information Management System program team recently demonstrated the new maintenance and supply software’s ability to support the service’s buoy utility stern loading boats at the Surface Forces Logistics Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo courtesy of Brian Tague Photography.

The Coast Guard installed Nationwide Automatic Identification System equipment along the shores of the Great Lakes and in the ports of Chicago and Duluth-Superior in June, completing coverage for the shorelines of the contiguous United States. U.S. Coast Guard graphic.

The Coast Guard began supporting its first HC-144B Ocean Sentry with its new supply and maintenance management software, the Logistics Information Management System, July 2, 2015. The HC-144B is the second aircraft configuration to use the system; the HC-144A began using it in Jan. 2015. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

The fifth National Security Cutter, James, departs the Huntington Ingalls shipyard July 12, 2015. James was delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard June 5 and will be based in Charleston, South Carolina, after its commissioning Aug. 8 in Boston, Massachusetts. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Carol (Rene) Shaw.

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Photo Journal: RDC Arctic Technology Evaluation 2015

The Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center is leading a team of 50 scientists and staff from 19 organizations on its annual Arctic Technology Evaluation July 3-26, 2015, aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy. The 420-foot polar icebreaker passed through the Bering Strait July 9, and participants are conducting multiple activities daily. Here is a sampling of what the RDC and its partners are accomplishing.